Gove had said during his departmental question-and-answer session with MPs: "I had the opportunity to visit a food bank in my constituency only on Friday and I appreciate that there are families who do face considerable pressures.
"The historic concept of departmental questions held at fixed, often lengthy intervals will be antiquated.
After three minutes in which the chamber is closed for prayers, each day's session opens with the Speaker announcing departmental questions.
Departmental questions offer the opportunity for a cabinet minister and his or her junior ministers to be held to account for what their department is doing.
So there were no more than a few dozen Conservatives to hear the chancellor answer his first departmental questions since the budget.
During departmental questions in parliament, Davis said he was keen not to rule out any option before the end of March, the government's self-imposed deadline for triggering article 50.
Before PMQs, which take place at midday on a Wednesday, there is a brief round of departmental questions in which the Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales offices get their occasional half-hour in the sun.
In a sometimes combative appearance at departmental questions, three days after she was appointed in place of Esther McVey, who resigned in protest at Theresa May's Brexit deal, Rudd condemned the report by Philip Alston, the UN's rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.
"It's quite clear the Treasury thinks there's a state of chaos around Universal Credit, the Cabinet Office thinks there's chaos, No 10 thinks there's chaos," shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne told Mr Duncan Smith during departmental questions in the Commons.
Kelly, a Ministry of Defence expert on WMD, committed suicide after an internal departmental inquiry questioned his 'unauthorised contacts' with the media.
